Ashley Young has surveyed Manchester United’s Champions League ambitions and insisted: “We’re in it to win it”.

Jose Mourinho’s side visit Sevilla on Wednesday for the first leg of a last 16 tie, looking to maintain the powerful form of English clubs in Europe by emulating Manchester City, Liverpool and Spurs in grabbing potentially vital away goals.

The Manchester Reds though, are not among the favourites for the competition, with many pundits suggesting their best chance of a trophy this season will come in the FA Cup, where they are home to relegation candidates Brighton in the quarter-finals.

Lukaku is on a run of six goals in eight after his weekend double (Image: Action Images via Reuters)

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But Young, who has been one of the mainstays of Mourinho’s team this term, is adamant United have the experience, pedigree and manager to rival the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

And he thinks United will always have a chance because they are guaranteed goals through the in-form Romelu Lukaku .

“Of course we can win the Champions League — you don’t enter a competition not to win it. That’s what we will be looking to do,” he said.

“Obviously, we have to take each game as it comes. The next one is against Sevilla. That’s a tough away game, like Newcastle away, like Huddersfield. That’s what the Sevilla stadium is like.

“We just have to concentrate on ourselves.”

Young and United have a big week with top-four race rivals Chelsea visiting on Sunday (Image: Reuters)

Lukaku grabbed two at Huddersfield in what looked a tricky fifth round tie at Huddersfield, to eventually ease United through comfortably.

And that takes his tally to six in his last eight games and proves the Belgium striker is back on the sort of form which saw him start the season on fire, scoring 16 goals in his first 13 games for club and country.

Young, who still harbours hopes of going with England to the World Cup this summer, believes that sort of striking threat makes United a potent force in cup competitions...especially as his partnership with Alexis Sanchez is beginning to blossom.

“When you have a striker scoring goals, it’s always important. His hold-up play, his all round game was fantastic at Huddersfield, and he’s done that all throughout the season,” Young added.

Sevilla drew twice with Liverpool in the groups, including a fightback from 3-0 down (Image: EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

“He’s getting goals. When you’ve got someone who can hold up the ball like he can and get in the box it’s fantastic.

“And you can see the combinations between them. Alexis comes inside and Rom’s seen him and picked him up as well and they’re picking each other out and they have worked well together so far.”

Young knows the FA Cup win was the start of a huge week for United, and said: “Yeah it’s a massive week. We had to get ourselves back to winning ways after last weekend. We’ve got a tough game against Sevilla away and we’ve got to concentrate on that.

“We can’t look too far ahead. Obviously we know we have got Chelsea coming up (at Old Trafford on Sunday). Sevilla is the next game and that’s where our thoughts are.”